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The Balto. & Ohio was a LARGE railroad, and up until its CSX incarnation it was the oldest of the class-1 railroads. In other words, your question is just not quite specific enough. In 1976 (I believe), the B+O, the C+O, and the WM teamed up to become the Chessie System; in the early '80's the Chessie System merged with the Seaboard System/Family Lines to form CSX, which exists today. The B+O began in 1831. You do the math! <br /> <br />The B+O began, of course, in Baltimore, then headed west. A line from Washington DC meets up with the line from Baltimore in Point-of-Rocks Maryland, and then continues along by following the Potomac River along the MD state line. This is the "core" of B+O, where it slithers across the Appalachians: the focal point, or fulcrum, is Cumberland, MD. Beyond this point, the B+O accesses all of Ohio, practically, and as it grew over the years through both corporate success and mergers, its reach broadened into the midwest and elsewhere. So, with all this in mind, if you have on hand some more recent diesel engines, then they might operate anywhere in the yankee east or midwest, and could interchange with just about any eastern railroad. If you've got older steam locomotives, then you might just concentrate on the other appalachian railroads (as I do), such as Pennsylvania RR, Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, New York Central, Reading, Western Maryland, Southern, etc. <br /> <br />As I mentioned in response to another thread, I got hooked on the N+W based on a single good-running N-scale engine, which happened to be painted as N+W #307. Sounds like you might be going down teh same road! More power to ya.
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